By Daniel B. Wood Would a school counselor have detected the shooter’s mounting frustrations before he attacked? Should students have reacted more forcefully in their own defense? As more details trickle out about the shooting rampage Monday morning that claimed the lives of six students and a receptionist at Oikos University in Oakland, criminologists, behavioral …
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Feb 13 2012
Farmington emergency responders train at schools
By Ryan Boetel, Farmington Daily Times Farmington is training to be ready for one of the scariest violent crimes. In recent weeks, all Farmington police officers and firefighters, and San Juan Regional Medical Center’s ambulance drivers and paramedics simulated a response to a school shooting. It’s the first time the city emergency response agencies have …
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May 19 2011
Illinois police officers train for dangerous scenarios
By Mary Schenk, The Carmi Times There’s only about one kind of call that scares a police officer more than a shooting at a shopping mall. “Our nightmare scenario would be a school shooting, followed by a shooting at the mall,” said Champaign police Sgt. Bob Rea, commander of the department’s SWAT team. That’s why …
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Mar 18 2011
Arming Teachers and Staff…Improving School Safety?
By Rick Shaw, Awareity.com In response to the January 2011 shooting at a Nebraska high school that killed one school administrator and seriously injured another, Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial has introduced LB 516. The bill would allow security guards, administrators and teachers to carry a concealed handgun at Nebraska public and private schools, including …
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